'90 vote winners demand UN seat

CHICAGO TRIBUNE

The pro-democracy winners of Myanmar's 1990 elections asked the UN secretary general Tuesday to recognize their own representatives in place of those of the current military rulers at the United Nations.

A letter from candidates elected to parliament in 1990 challenged the legitimacy of the military junta that refused to cede power after a victory by Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy. The junta has ruled Myanmar ever since.